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MA English and History

University of Aberdeen

Institution
University of Aberdeen
Level
undergraduate
Subject
English and History
Duration
4 years
UCAS code
QV31
Typical offer
A-level BBC, IB 32

Entry requirements

A level: BBC IB: 32 points including 5, 5, 5 at HL. SL in English is also required. SQA Highers: BBBB. BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma: DMM in related subjects. Note: BTEC Level 3 Extended Certificate (Subsidiary Diploma) achieved at Distinction level, is normally acceptable in lieu of one A Level at grade B.) GCSE English (or equivalent) is required at Grade C/4 or above. GCSE Mathematics at Grade C/4 is also required for Accountancy, Economics and Finance programmes. Irish Leaving Certificate: Five subjects at Higher at H3.

About this course

MA in English and History. Core topics include Research Methods, Historical Research, Communication & Writing, and Critical & Analytical Thinking. Students undertake a major dissertation project in their final year, drawing on primary and secondary material under academic supervision.

Modules

  • Academic Writing for Language & Literature
  • Getting Started at the University of Aberdeen
  • Acts of Reading
  • Making History
  • Controversial Classics
  • Rethinking Reading
  • Encounters with Shakespeare
  • The Tragedy of Knowledge
  • Thinking History
  • Page and Stage: Renaissance Writings 1500 - 1640 (EL30CP)
  • Knights, Virgins and Viragos: Chaucer and Medieval Writing (EL35DQ)
  • Fallen Women and Self - Made Men (EL35VC)
  • Romanticism (EL30XR)
  • Sympathy for the Devil: Scottish Short Stories (EL30QA)
  • Britain and the Nineteenth - Century World (EL35SB)
  • Modernism: Make IT New (EL30FF)
  • American Voices: Self and Society, 1850 - 1930 (EL30RD)
  • Haunted Texts (EL35KN)
  • Art and Atrocity: Representations of Violence and Trauma (EL35UT)
  • Architecture and Power
  • History of Medicine (ME33HM)
  • Painting in Tudor and Early Stuart England
  • English Dissertation
  • History in Practice
  • Undergraduate Dissertation in History
  • Special Sub: Enlightenment Compared: Ireland, Scotland, Central Europe
  • Special Subject: History of the Israeli Palestinian Conflict
  • Special Sub: the Child as Subject in the British World
  • Spec Sub: Court Society in Late Medieval Europe (C. 1300 – C. 1500)
  • Special Sub:european Constitutional Monarchies in the Long 19thcentury
  • Special Sub.: Britain and Revolutionary Russia 1917 - 1924
  • Special Subject: Myths of the North